[QUOTE="seanmcloughlin"]

[QUOTE="Kevz0"]

Whats your budget? A GTX 470 or HD 6850 are great cards but not very expensive. If you want to spend more money you can get a GTX 570 or a HD 6950.

msfan1289

Meh 470 isn't really worth it. The 460 is just as good. But we need to know your budget. Are you going high end, mid or low? I have a 560Ti and I think its a great card for the price. If you find one cheap

and we need to know if he has Windows Vista or Windows 7 to get Dx-11 and i looked online on amazon and you are rigth a 470 is not worth it a lot of people are crazy enought to sell a GTX 470 in the same price as a GTX 570 so might as well buy a GTX 570 newegg from newegg.

Yup thats true. Win7 and Vista are two different mediums when implementing direct x 11.

[QUOTE="Kevz0"]

Whats your budget? A GTX 470 or HD 6850 are great cards but not very expensive. If you want to spend more money you can get a GTX 570 or a HD 6950.

thekey

Or save that money and get an i7 core quad. And use the card he just got. If you want to tap into direct x 11 I would go for a new HD 6950/6970.

Oops my apoligies go with the HD 6870s or 6970s to tap into direct x 11. Your dual core process will do but it's always to good to upgrade your processor as well so that it can take advantage of the new GPU technology. A quad core processor would be great so would a hexicore one as well.

Whats your budget? A GTX 470 or HD 6850 are great cards but not very expensive. If you want to spend more money you can get a GTX 570 or a HD 6950.

Kevz0

Or save that money and get an i7 core quad. And use the card he just got. If you want to tap into direct x 11 I would go for a new HD 6950/6970.

My specs right now

• AMD Athlon II X3 450 Processor
• GeForce GTS 450
• 4 GB RAM

It's self-built (or I didn't put it together a local shopkeeper did it for me :P).

It's about a year old now and the GTS 450 isn't really the most powerful card on the market.

So now I'm wondering what would be the best card I can get in the range of 300-400$?

I would also prefer a Nvidia card as I'm familiar with those but anything else will also do!

Gaimz4eva

A new cpu and gpu Phenom 2 X4 955 GTX 560ti much better combo then a GTX 570 or 6970 paired with that Athlon X3 450

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103808

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127594

Hd 6870 deffinately but the Hd 6850s are no slouches either.

[QUOTE="sirlag01"]

Never have V-Sync on, reduces FPS. I've always had it that way, no damage to GPU, no melting LOL.

Elann2008

Thats not true either your GPU wouldn't be able to acheive such numbers unless it is overclocked.(Unless we're talking about mid range to high end cards like GTX 580s' , AMD HD 5800s' or 6800s' which stock can achieve such proformance) A GPU would only "melt" if you've overclocked it.(Especially if you don't know what your doing, and or have insuficient cooling) you can melt your hardware with ease in that case. VSync does lock frame rates toyour monitor's refresh rate but your GPU should be able to handle them.

I have two of them for now.

I suppose I should have posted my full specs before...

CPU: AMD Athlon Dual Core 2.2ghz 4200+ (I'm pretty sure it's a 64 XII, but my my PSU died on that PC so I can't really check for sure.)

GPU: Nvidia 460 GTX 1GB

3GB Ram

Vista

I just got a new GPU a few months ago, could do with more RAM though, but a new motherboard...really? How can I check to see my motherboard because I don't have that much money. I was thinking that if I have a dual core now, a newer dual core would also work.

pogswarts

If your mobo can handle it why not go for this one

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103871&cm_re=amd_athlon_ii_x4-_-19-103-871-_-Product

no OCing needed.

I also wanted to say that the CPU and RAM is the key to PC gaming. (The GPU takes less load off of the CPU)